2. Ursula von St. Ange

5. Stellenbosch

6. Ursula von St. Ange My institute CSIR Picture of Institute

7. Ursula von St. Ange CSIR PO Box 320 Stellenbosch 7599 +27 21 888-2515 +27 21 888-2693 uvstange@csir.co.za Don’t forget, ask for my address again!

8. What’s in it for you?? Unifying the fragmented data of Africa

9. What is my contribution?

10. Four major databases

11. SADCO (Southern African Datacentre for Oceanography)

12. SADCO Temperature, Salinity, Oxygen depth profiles VOS data (historical data) Currents Waves Weather stations

13. SADCO National oceanographic database of Southern Africa The only one

14. WASA (Wind Atlas of South Africa)

15. WASA Network of ten 60m masts – multiple sensors - 5 levels Map of masts

16. WASA Modelling wind pattern

17. EDM (Environmental Data Management)

18. EDM Waves Weather Currents

19. AfrOBIS (sub-Saharan African node of OBIS)

20. AfrOBIS Marine species database Around Africa

21. Highlights

22. Submitted most data of all nodes

24. African data Kenya Madagascar Nigeria Tunisia

25. Warm and cold current on same continent – very high biodiversity

26. Challenges

27. Funding – inflation a big problem

28. Data from Africa

29. Networking in Africa

30. Language barrier

31. Getting data – flagged

32. Red tape - government

33. Procrastination

34. Busy with other projects

35. Collaboration

36. Aphia database AfReMaS WoRMS

37. Collaboration Aphia database AfReMaS WoRMS Species Lists Taxonomic editors

38. Collaboration Taxon match – extra flag

39. Complete datasets Data set AfrOBIS AfReMaS Collaboration

40. Complete datasets AfrOBIS AfReMaS Collaboration

41. Collaboration – steps forward

42. Where to get me Availability of data Some successes Some challenges Suggestions – steps forward

43. Ursula von St. Ange CSIR PO Box 320 Stellenbosch 7599 +27 21 888-2515 +27 21 888-2693 uvstange@csir.co.za